Removing spoon stains from coffee cups
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- This is just a quick tip for removing the metal spoon stains from your coffee cups. Careful with anything bleach; you NEVER want to mix it with ammonia.
Applied Science:
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Bleach, which is sodium hypochlorite, may also be viewed as the sodium salt of hipochlorous acid, thus if you add hydrogen peroxid to bleach you will get the following reaction: H2O2 + NaOCl → NaCl + H2O + O2 . Needless to say this reaction other than being rather violent, produces a lot of oxigen which is, as you can imagine, a stong oxidizer! I'm a dentist and I use those two substances for a variety of uses including (believe it or not) cleaning the inside of a root canal from any residual organic material before "sealing it up". (sorry for my English, I'm italian)
Hydrogen peroxide is a strong oxidizer, and essentially turns the metal into rust that is then easily scrubbed away. You can make it even more powerfull with the addition of an acid to start the oxidation proscess.
It's worth noting that this chemical is powerful and will burn skin. Use gloves.
@@muh1h1 That might be perfect actually, stronger acids could damage the cup
Is there any reactivity between vinegar and the other two ingredients? Note that Comet is mostly calcium carbonate powder, with some bleach and soaps.
@@pocket83squared good point. bleach and vinegar will produce toxic chlorine gas, so maybe use salt?
Right, it would also neutralize the acidity of the vinegar. I agree, vinegar, Hydrogene Peroxide & salt should not cause any of those issures and probably work, but i've not tried it...
bleach is also a strong oxidizer...
I have had some luck simply wetting the inside of the cup, sprinkling the inside with table salt, and scrubbing away just like you did. It works fairly well, actually. It's probably easier on one's skin.
You can remove coffee, tea, and spoon stains from cups with salt pretty easily. Just throw some water in the cup pour it out and then put some salt in the cup. It makes a little paste and when you use your hand to scrub it around it all comes off like magic.
Thanks you for the amazing tip, mate!
Tried it out, and in 5 minutes I scrubbed away 8 years worth of spoon marks on my favorite coffee mug. :D
@@MagicMaster667 No problem! Glad my wee tip can help anyone out.
Yes, salt is what I have always used too. Sometimes it takes a fair amount of scrubbing. It's much easier on the skin than using bleach in any form, for me, anyway. My skin reacts to chlorine in a bad way.
I was going to mention Applied Science and then you brought his channel up too. In his video he used a solution called piranha or something, I believe it involved H2O2 and sulphuric acid or something along those lines. I wanted to try cleaning some of my bowls but I didn't have the acid, but now that I know it works with more household chemicals I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
Here's the video Gabe is talking about. ua-cam.com/video/HiL6uPNlqRw/v-deo.html
Lots of good cleaning tips in that video, but skip to 7:11 to see Ben clean titanium markings from a ceramic bowl
Josh Doyne Thanks for being less lazy than me, cheers
That mix is called Hot Piranha, if you need something easy to google.
Spoonasaurus Wrex That's it, thanks so much. So much information on the internet but it's frustrating when you don't have a good name for the thing you want to look up.
Just found this video, restored a vintage cup from 1985, thank you so much! Everybody in the world has comet and hydrogen peroxide in their closet. I wore a glove and did this outside just in case LOL
smart!!
Thank you! It works great. Sorry, vinegar - baking soda - elbow grease crowd (you can usually even skip vinegar and soda), kind of got tired of you.
I'd like to know what the metal is that is in my cups. It seems to come off with acid, and that scares me to think what I'm drinking when I make tea with lemon.
I use white vinegar and a fresh kitchen sponge scouring pad.
and it works?? cuz I'll go try that. thanx a bunch!! Wendy
@@wearyourcrazy5762 it works for me every time. The scouring pad has to be fresh so it's more course. And it takes a little elbow grease.
Cool! That'll probably work for the tool marks I get layin' tile.
I have the same issue as a tiler . Great point
You should probably add a disclaimer to wear gloves or something...
@@Nrwn-Qsr - "protect stupidity from extinction" - I love this!
@@JohnHeisz is this the type of witty comments you were mentioning the other day?
Gloves for Comet and peroxide? Disclaimer? Not gonna happen.
lol. But look at those soft, pink thumbs go up! Man up, pussies.
@@pocket83squared 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ffs
Erasers work to
Won’t remove the paint of of black coffee cups?
Not likely. Coffee cups are usually glazed ceramic. Glaze is like a glass, so it's pretty hard to scratch. Glaze is so hard, in fact, that the spoon stains are a result of the cup scratching off the metal.
Thank you for this tip! But does peroxide make a real difference compared to ordinary water? Me, I always scrubbed my cups with Comet or such stuff with a few drops of water, I've never fancied to add peroxide. Now, I've tried to clean two halves of my scratched cup by both methods, and I see no difference. But you, obviously, have experimented more. Did you find that peroxide improved the cleaning power of Comet?
I believe you. It's a case where I simply trust the science. A few years back, I must have been sufficiently convinced by the _Applied Science_ video, and so I add a spoonful of peroxide at only a nominal cost.
I know that adding hydrogen peroxide to vinegar to react copper into copper sulfate speeds up the process by breaking down into H and H20 I think that it's doing the same here
You get a like as your speaking voice or presentation is pleasant and a like for omission of a 2 second music clip, repeating throughout the video...
Use a Mr. clean sponge.
EWG gives Comet an F. I use sodium percarbonate (non-chlorine oxygen bleach) solution.
Oh yeah, OxiClean! Which is pretty much like using Hydrogen Peroxide and water. That'll lack the abrasive power of some good old Calcium Carbonate. I guess you could try adding in some salt or pumice. Not too practical if you're trying to clean a gutter, though.
That said, take it from an extreme green composting Malthusian who fixes junk, uses a flip-phone, and reads Kaczynski: the EWG is an ineffectual, alarmist, hype-driven house of pseudoscience. If it's eco-friendly sustainability you seek, use less Comet. Maybe skip that yearly cruise. Ideally, limit yourself to fewer than 2.2 children. But espousing a zero-tolerance for bleach isn't gonna do the world any favors.
nice quick tip.
I always stir my coffee with a plastic spoon. Problem solved.
Sandy Killingsworth
👏🏼We do too. Does your household also have some designated coffee/tea stained plastic spoons?
Just keep in mind that you may be melting plastic particles into your coffee!
Video idea, do a comparison with a mr clean magic eraser then maybe explain how those white cubes work their voodoo would be interesting from a scientific view!
I tink is the bleach in the "Comet" 😊
i used dish soap neat and ascotchbrite pad to remove it which worked
what are your spoons made out of? such staining never happened to me with stainless steel utensils. I know alumin(i)um can leave marks similar to lead but i haven't seen aluminum utensils for a long time since aluminum has been considered not the greatest material for contact with food
How many mugs do you use? And how often? Do you use one more than the others? How much coffee do you drink? How often do you do the dishes? What kind of dish soap do you use? Lots of variation between people.
@@madethisforrestrictedvideo9907 ive also never seen this happen. Dont be hypersensitive.
Are there any other non-carpentary related UA-cam channels you'd recommend? Sorry if I’ve asked this before, and even more sorry if you answered!
I throw this question out to anyone else that enjoys Mr. Pocket’s videos, too
@@DaveScurlock Hey Dave, you might check out AvE. He has a tool teardown and electronic logic channel. He's another smart dude who refuses to show his face, and has some interesting things to say.
NileRed is great if you're into chemistry.
I like @nurdrage for chemistry-related content.
I quite like PKA, as a podcast. (should note that it's not super cerebral, but I get a kick out of watching two millionaires and another guy talk shit for four hours a week)
I'd also suggest @carlsagan42 if you want to watch someone with a PHD (molecular biology) do very well, or very poorly at video games. (With some commentary related to his field pretty often)
I wanted a third suggestion, but tried to find people who are less popular, since you'd have probably heard of them otherwise. I could give a bunch of further suggestions, but you'd have heard of about half of them.
My answer will be boring. But since you asked, I'll throw in 2¢. I don't really watch much UA-cam. It's mostly all narcissistic trash and self-promotion. But I do like Vsauce! I also watch lots of lectures, talks, and debates- but not from any one specific source or channel. I'm more of a podcast guy. I listen mostly to _JRE_ and _Waking Up._ I enjoy ideas and people that challenge my understanding.
Oh, I will recommend PBS NewsHour without hesitation. Commercial free! It remains the one unpolluted stream for (American) journalistic integrity and fair evaluation of the evidence. Great news channel. They do get a bit too sympathetic to cultural diversity at times, but that's just a sign of a functional news media outlet in my opinion; a lateral part of any informational medium's job is to bring into the light minority plight/opinion, for those of us in the masses that might otherwise know nothing about it. Of course, extremists and the media illiterate often see such presentations as commie propaganda, but nuance doesn't seem to be the strong suit of the ignorant, does it?
To sum up: I'm more interested in naked ideas and _facts_ than _opinion._ I prefer to use the first two as tools to draw my own conclusions. Maybe that's not the best recipe for entertainment, but that's what I am ;)
No Pulitzer prize winner but interesting. Is there lead in your utensils?
nah ceramic is just way stronger than the metal used in silverware
Thought that was funny when I realized it.
You're not scratching grooves in a plate, you're knocking the points off your fork.
The easiest way I’ve found to keep a clean cup is to drink my coffee/tea black ;)
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